Help to Get Health and Social Care Services
What the CHAMPs Team do:
We can support you to get better health services.
We check that services have easy to understand health information and clear signage.
We help to train health and social care staff to understand your needs.
We work with health and social care professionals who speak up for you.
Click the images below to find out about information and support available:
Acute Liaison Team for Adults and Children with Learning Disabilities and / or Autism Spectrum Conditions
The Acute Liaison Team for Adults and Children with Learning Disabilities and / Autism Spectrum Conditions is based at Treliske hospital.
They can support you with your plans to go to hospital and during your time in hospital.
Find out more information on the team and how to get in touch with them on the Cornwall NHS Website
Health Screening
The screening liaison nurses support people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people to understand why screening is important and what to expect at a screening appointment.
The CHAMPs team teamed up with our amazing Screening Liaison nurses to create a fun and catchy song all about the importance of screening because they wanted to make sure people with a learning disability and/or autistic people understand how important it is to get checked regularly to stay on top of your health:
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Hospital Passports
They are useful to tell staff more about you.
They also tell staff about your needs and likes.
Take your hospital passport with you when you have a hospital appointment or stay.
Click here to download a hospital passport for people with autism
Click here to download a hospital passport for people with learning disabilities
Dental Services
The CHAMPs team visit organisations around Cornwall to teach people how they can look after their teeth.
Get in touch with the CHAMPs team if you'd like them to visit you:
By email - healthy.cornwall@cornwall.gov.uk
By phone - 01872 324200
Here are some helpful documents about looking after your teeth:
Download our easy read document about what your NHS dentist can do for you
Have a look at our easy read document about looking after your teeth
Your Future and End of Life Care Plan
A Future and End of Life Care Plan helps you tell people about:
The things that are important to you.
The people who are important to you.
How you would like to be cared for if you are very ill or dying.
It will help the people caring for you make decisions in your best interest if you are unable to tell them yourself.
Click here to download an easy read Your Future and End of Life Care Plan document
Click here to find out about the Victoria & Stuart Project's End of Life Care Planning Toolkit